On Fr, 2017-03-03 at 10:05 -0500, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
On 03/03/2017 09:34 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Ken Schneider - openSUSE <suse-list3@bout-tyme.net> wrote:
Most modern routers allow you to assign a fixed address to a mac address.
Of course. But if the MAC address keeps changing, what will the fixed address be?
And, there is no router in these systems. Only a switch. an openSUSE server provides DHCPD services.
I cannot understand the need for the system to creat a MAC address when every device is asigned an address by the manufacturer. Having an openSUSE server provide DHCP means you can configure it to supply a fixed IP address to a fixed MAC address.
Thats not the case for at least the RPi1/2/3 [A,B[plus]]. Other SBCs may be affected as well. Virtual machines also have no vendor assigned MAC addresses. Regards, Stefan